MEMORANDUM

TO: Record

FROM: Brent Ruminski, ERG

DATE: 18 July 2014

SUBJECT: 2014 Water Management for Shale Plays West Conference Materials

On May 28th through May 29th, EPA attended the 2014 Water Management for Shale 

Plays West in Denver, Colorado. The conference materials in the following table are provided as 

attachments:
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Table 1. 2014 Water Management for Shale Plays West Presentations

Presentation DCN Presenter Name and Affiliation Presentation Title

SGE00768.A1 Alexander Robart, PacWest Consulting Partners E&P Infrasture vs. Third-Party Services Regional Economic & 

Environmental Factors

SGE00768.A2 Bob Goltz, Dow Energy & Water Removing Boron and Benzene from Produced Water

SGE00768.A3 Bob Poole, Santa Maria Energy Analyzing AB32 And California's Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) 

To Realize Requirements and Navigate Between Regulatory Demands 

for Cyclic Steam Injection Project

SGE00768.A4 Bob Poole, Santa Maria Energy Examining The Successful Implementation Of An Innovative 

Partnership With a Producer And County Government to Deliver 

Treated Residential Water For Re-Use In Stream Generation

SGE00768.A5 Basic Stormwater Management: Leveraging Innovation

SGE00768.A6 Dean Ritts, WorleyParsons Air Pollution Emissions at Flowback/Produced Wastewater Treatment 

Plants

SGE00768.A7 Denise Onyskiw, Onyskiw Engineering, LLC Seismicity Concerns for Underground Injection

SGE00768.A8 Dick Wolf, Colorado Division of Water Resources Water Management Strategies in the Niobrara Shale & Piceance Basins

SGE00768.A9 Eric Peterson, NGL Energy Partners LP Water Disposal – An Assessment of Disposal Wells and Facilities

SGE00768.A10 Georgi Nochowicz, Halliburton Relationship between the Shale Oil & Gas Industry and High Quality 

Water Cycle

SGE00768.A11 Harris Williams SB 4 Interim Well Stimulation Treatment Regulations Text of 

Proposed Regulations

SGE00768.A12 John Harris, Paul Williams; Dentons US LLP Water Management for California Shale Plays California Legal and 

Regulatory Issues

SGE00768.A13 Jaret Wirtz, Western Area Water Supply Authority North Dakota Regulatory Update

SGE00768.A14 Tommy Johnson, David Harry; RockWater Energy Solutions Uinta Water Management

SGE00768.A15 Keith Davidson, Tetra Tech C7 Produced Water Recycling Pipeline

SGE00768.A16 Dan Sampson, WorleyParsons Zero Liquid Discharge Capability, Experience, and Overview

SGE00768.A17 Ken Royse, Bartlett & West Water Management in the Bakken
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Presentation DCN Presenter Name and Affiliation Presentation Title

SGE00768.A18 Kevin Rein, Colorado Division of Water Resources Produced Water from Oil and Gas Development in Colorado

SGE00768.A19 Matthew Bruff, Altela, Inc. Sustainable Water Treatment, Recycling & Disposal Practices in Shale 

Basins

SGE00768.A20 Nathan Zaugg, MWH Storing Water On-Site to Maximize Environmental and Economic 

Efficiencies

SGE00768.A21 Ken Nichols, Lindsay Atkinson, CH2M Hill Identifying Viable Water Sourcing Alternatives Beyond Freshwater

SGE00768.A22 Dick Wolfe, Dept. of Natural Resources Concerning Petitions to the State Engineer to Make Determinations of 

Nontributary Ground Water in the Case of Applications for Well 

Permits to be Issued Pursuant to Sectoin 37-90-137(4) C.R.S

SGE00768.A23 Dick Wolfe, Dept. of Natural Resources Water Sources and Demand for the Hydraulic Fracturing of Oil and 

Gas Wells in Colorado from 2010 through 2015

SGE00768.A24 Robert Smith, Express Energy Services Sovereign Authority of Decision Making for Water Resources 

Management... Who Has It?

SGE00768.A25 Sarah Fletcher, Sourcewater Cambridge Innovation Center at 

MIT

Water Management Infrastructure Investments: Decision Factors and 

Regional Economics

SGE00768.A26 Scott Tucker, Hach Company Evaluating Characteristics of Source, Flowback, & Produced Water for 

Effective Water Treatment

SGE00768.A27 Scott Wilson, USEAP Office of Water Overview of PEA Authorities for Water Associated with Oil and Gas 

Extraction

SGE00768.A28 Stephen Hughes, Tetra Tech Treating Produced Water to Generate Beneficial Reuse Byproducts